World's Smallest Marine Aquarium Build Thread

[MarkoD]

Originally Posted by ScubaSteve

Ya, that's the plan... problem is I can't find a piece of rubble in my tank that's small enough to fit!

Anyone have any ideas on what I could use as a heater?

a light? or something underneath?

[paddyob]

Originally Posted by ScubaSteve

I thought about that too. Wouldn't even need a light! Any other little nems I could put in there that, you know, don't look like death like an aptasia does?

Majano is nicer ha ha ha ha ha!

[paddyob]

Thinking of shrimp.... as inverts can be sensitive... does anyone think that a tiny tank might not work for him?


Try find someone with clown fish fry or something extra small.

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by ScubaSteve

Ya, that's the plan... problem is I can't find a piece of rubble in my tank that's small enough to fit!

Anyone have any ideas on what I could use as a heater?

what if you made a little mini stand then used a regular light bulb under neathe to keep it warm???


***** edit...damn marjko beat me to it lol******

[ScubaSteve]

Originally Posted by paddyob

Majano is nicer ha ha ha ha ha!

I've got a couple of those I could donate to the cause. Problem is, I wouldn't care what happened to the tank "Honey, why is your tiny tank in the freezer?"

Originally Posted by paddyob

Thinking of shrimp.... as inverts can be sensitive... does anyone think that a tiny tank might not work for him?

Try find someone with clown fish fry or something extra small.

I'm gonna try a shallow water/tidepool zoa first, something that can stand being in warm, relatively stagnant water. That'll be challenge enough. A fry of some sort would be interesting.

Originally Posted by reefwars

what if you made a little mini stand then used a regular light bulb under neathe to keep it warm???

Like EasyBake Aquarium! I thought about that as well. Only thing that makes me hesitate about that is that I'd have to keep the bulb on 24/7 (fire hazard?) and in a tank with very little water flow the water in the sand would probably get really hot and kill off anything in the sand and create an ammonia spike.

Some things I've thought about:

-Use the real tank as a sump
-Make a mini water pump with a miniature sump where I could have a heater of some sort
-Use a small resistor as a heating element (may be best option? Would have to figure out the math to see what size would be best)

***** edit...damn marjko beat me to it lol******

[CandyCane]

maybe some kind of very small heat coils that could heat the tank from underneith or in the tiny sump